There is no replacement for TBS, it is eternal. ( I used it for a few years as main blade and ALWAYS went back to it after testing other blades. ) There are a few Nexy blades that play close enough and do the same things (control, feel and power when you need it) even the Tibhar Inca (designed by Nexy President as he has close ties with Tibhar) is a good one, but they are all over your price range. Nexy Calix and Arirang are two great new composite blades that come to mind, but they are not cheap blades.
I would say suck it up and get another TBS, heavy as you can find.
As an experiment, try to get the famous Galaxy 896 or a KTL Instinct or Instinkt + and modify it. How? Scrape off both of the handles and fill in the empty carved out hollow space with something heavier than air ! You can cut off some nails the right length and glue them in. (That is what I did my last time) You can simply just fill in the space with wood glue or hide glue. I did that with a Calix and it was greatness before I broke it in a match. I am hell on blades when I was in Korea.
These blades are ALL+ to OFF- in speed class with great control and ability to spin up the ball, but are not very fast blades. You have better control than the TBS with them stock, but you will be forced to make a lot more connecting shots in a match. That is not a bad thing to grow your game, but maybe you do not want to do that. So this mod will add both weight LOW in the blade, will IMPROVE the balance and also the feel. The best thing is it bumps up the speed one class to make it a LOT closer to TBS speed. You will not have the exact feel, but you can have a blade that does a lot of what TBS does well really cheaply.
Nexy will prolly want to disown me for what I just said, but I mean it. You can play great with very inexpensive setups. I do it every time I am in between tests or when main blade is wounded. I play great with their blades and do not stretch anything when I say they are great stuff. They are not the only great stuff out there, but they are indeed great and different for the rest by a country mile.
Do what is right for you with what you know and want. Remember, business is the art of making people want stuff they do not need or just to simply want them to get something more than they need. Every business on this planet excels at this. It is not necessarily a bad thing. Being satisfied can have its worth. Just do not become an E.J.
